Although the story is set to SOLO at the moment, if someone is really interested in helping me, I would be willing to switch it to a collab.

I've written several chapters to the story already, and although I have a vague idea for the rest of the story and beyond, there are a few obstacles that I could use some help on.

For now I will start with describing some features of the story that haven't been introduced yet (and may not be for quite some time), so you need not read what I have posted so far. It probably wouldn't make sense anyway. Feel free to read it if you wish.

Some time in the distant future time travel is invented. I haven't fully imagined what the time machine looks like, but from all the sources that I have to play upon, it would probably be like the remote from the TV show Sliders. The machine and connected crystal create a time vortex that people walk into to travel through time.

Because of the obvious dangers of time travel, an agency is created to "police" time. I've thought of the name BITE, which means the Bureau that Investigates Temporal Events. It's the kind of name that we can have fun with sort of like Doctor Who? We can have Bite Agents, and the phrase Bite Me can be used too. Ha!

Anyway, one of the questions that I can 't seem to answer is how the agency is organized. Obviously, time would march on, and the agency would grow, expand and evolve. At any given time, would the agency monitor only a particular period of time or all time? If a temporal event is discovered, will agents be put into the field or will they study the event? Will they communicate with different time periods of the agency? For example, maybe a temporal event is discovered but Bite Agents aren't put into the field for another fifty years, the agency in the future sharing messages with the agency in the past. That way agents don't get in the way of future agents.

Does anyone have any ideas in this regard?

I have other details or aspects of the story that could use some modern to major collaboration on if anyone is interested. I thought I would start with this to spark someone's interest.

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